Re: [datameet] Bulk SMS cost for a crowdsourcing project

2013-04-16 Thread Deepa Gupta
If you want to be able to receive and send large amounts of calls and SMSes (i.e. in the lakhs) in very short periods of time (like a few hours) then you will need to use a provider like exotel or zipdial, otherwise the rest of the options are good.. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Thejesh GN

Re: [datameet] Bulk SMS cost for a crowdsourcing project

2013-04-16 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
+datameet. On 16-Apr-2013, at 5:36 PM, Vijay Sharma vi...@exotel.in wrote: Thanks Rahul, Hi Nivedita, You can not only use SMS but voice and Ivr too to collect the data.

Re: [datameet] Bulk SMS cost for a crowdsourcing project

2013-04-15 Thread Manish Malik
You can use any of the numerous SMS Services Providers to buy a Longcode number (a 10-digit number people can send SMS to). Can cost between Rs. 500/- to Rs. 1000/- per month (and quite less than that of that if bought for longer duration). These services can send the data to your web server when

Re: [datameet] Bulk SMS cost for a crowdsourcing project

2013-04-15 Thread Kailash Thakur
You could check out rapidsms as well which is python based. http://www.rapidsms.org On 15-Apr-2013, at 5:46 PM, Sutirtha Roy sutirthas...@gmail.com wrote: FrontLine SMS could be another option: http://www.frontlinesms.com/ -s. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Febin John James